Welcome to the last song release for July! On July 31st, 2014 Lauren Bousfield performed live on KXLU 88.9 FM and released three new untitled songs. There’s also some Dramatic Trance from Silvuh in addition to House from DarkZtar. Comment in this week’s thread!

With this song release we start entering July! I hope you’re all looking forward to this weekend as the 4th of July is coming around; I’ll be starting an event that day on a project I have been working on for a while. We’ve got some technical files this time around that are deceptively tricky. Comment on this week’s files in this week’s thread!

The top FIVE users who Full Combo R2 on the FASTEST rates by 9PM Server Time will receive 10,000 credits. And to prevent only the higher-ups from running away with all the spoils, the top TEN users who Full Combo R2 on the SLOWEST rates by the same deadline will receive 15,000 credits.Users cannot place in both categories.

Please congratulate Deidara837 for his first stepfile in FFR! It’s a spacey bass-filled track from Monstercat artist Grant Bowtie. The other releases this week are a house song by another Monstercat artist, Astronaut, and a BMS track by kireji that is a bit of a style mash-up. Comment on the files in in this week’s thread!

Welcome to the second part of the bi-weekly release for May! We’ve got a Complextro and Drumstep combination this time around with a tricky Progressive file. In other news the Game Managers and a few other judges are currently reviewing judge applications, so the first part of the judge system restructuring is working towards completion.

Hello and welcome to the first song release of May! We’ll be doing bi-weekly releases in the coming months while the judging system undergoes some important changes and allot some time for the batch to recover. More details about specific incremental stages will be posted early next week.

It’s difficult to outshine last month’s massive raw scoring update, but we hope this month and its community poll also brings some refreshing changes to the site!

What’s New?
—————–Recent Achievements is a new feature that tracks player accomplishments on the front page! The Recent Achievements sidebar announces milestones for Grandtotal, Games Played, Full Combos, AAAs, Division and Tier promotions, and major token unlocks (Otaku Speedvibe/St. Scarhand/Home Run Derby). If you have any suggestions for additional achievements, please leave a comment on this post!

Visiting your Level Ranks now updates your Skill Rating and FFR Rank. In an additional bug fix, Level Ranks and Leaderboard updates now generate the same Average Rank and AAA count.

The maximum saved replays for regular players been increased from 50 to 75. Players with Veteran status may now record up to 200 saved replays!

A Challenger Appears!
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We are excited to announce badman7772 as the latest member of the Event Staff team! badman7772 is an accomplished tournament host and FFR Trading Card Game staff member, so there is no doubt he will make a great addition to the team.

Happy keysmashing! I look forward to meeting many of you at Anime North 2015 in a few short weeks.